building stamina!

[JPTfellterrier 65]

im doing about 3 miles with her and the terrier a day although most is down hill......for my sake as my god its not easy as can barley ride a bike

 

and jess is a colliexgrey

[sandymere 8,263]

Last week I ran 22 miles with the dogs trotting beside me or gambling about were appropriate. A human jog and dog trot are both about the same speed and will build good base stamina for both owner and dog and will not build to much muscle but rather strengthen and tone. I find one long run of around 10 miles with a few shorter ones ie two 6 milers gives days off for more gentle obedience training days and ball work/ speedier stuff. You need to build up gradually which is why I always recomend the owner running as then they are unlikely to over do it at first which can happen if you use a bike. Of course if you have any health problems then see your GP first but running 20 miles aweek with proper shoes etc may well pay dividends for the owner in later life and the dog next winter.

[Attack Fell Terrier 864]

im doing about 3 miles with her and the terrier a day although most is down hill......for my sake as my god its not easy as can barley ride a bike

 

and jess is a colliexgrey

 

Once you get used to that, up the mileage gradually and take them a bit further.

 

Last week I ran 22 miles with the dogs trotting beside me or gambling about were appropriate. A human jog and dog trot are both about the same speed and will build good base stamina for both owner and dog and will not build to much muscle but rather strengthen and tone. I find one long run of around 10 miles with a few shorter ones ie two 6 milers gives days off for more gentle obedience training days and ball work/ speedier stuff. You need to build up gradually which is why I always recomend the owner running as then they are unlikely to over do it at first which can happen if you use a bike. Of course if you have any health problems then see your GP first but running 20 miles aweek with proper shoes etc may well pay dividends for the owner in later life and the dog next winter.

 

Man I hate running, even when I boxed I hated running. Fair play to you though pal.

[dogman89 0]

road walking builds stamina

 

 

Id strongly disagree with that....road walking builds muscle not stamina....a dog in reasonably good condition on a cool day who is kept hydrated will walk pretty much all day without ever really needing to work hard.....do this over a period of weeks and you will end up with a heavily muscled dog with literally no endurance when it comes to running.

For a dogs endurance to be improved you need to open his lungs up from time to time and you wont do this by just walking him.

 

road walking will toughen the feet and strengthen joints and ligament, and increase muscle size and strength which along with regular lamping (as i presume this is what the dog will be used for) and free running threw fields and what not, should increase stamina and the dogs indurance. just taking the dogs out threw fields will increase stamina but it wound toughen the dogs pads and it also wont keep the nails short

[Little Butch 16]

I'm finding now that I've got my Pup that If you walk two Dogs together and let them off the lead In the Fields they run like f*ck!

Must clock up some miles Running like that..

Butch

[Stabs 3]

Last week I ran 22 miles with the dogs trotting beside me or gambling about were appropriate. A human jog and dog trot are both about the same speed and will build good base stamina for both owner and dog and will not build to much muscle but rather strengthen and tone. I find one long run of around 10 miles with a few shorter ones ie two 6 milers gives days off for more gentle obedience training days and ball work/ speedier stuff. You need to build up gradually which is why I always recomend the owner running as then they are unlikely to over do it at first which can happen if you use a bike. Of course if you have any health problems then see your GP first but running 20 miles aweek with proper shoes etc may well pay dividends for the owner in later life and the dog next winter.

 

Good on you Sandy. I did a marathon with the old bitch I have last year and I did another with her 18 month old son a week or so ago. They get a 6km run every morning before work and two half marathons every weekend. Just running the son now though as the old bitch is confined to barracks until her broken shoulder and leg mends. The stamina of the young dog is very good considering the amount of greyhound in him.

[sandymere 8,263]

Last week I ran 22 miles with the dogs trotting beside me or gambling about were appropriate. A human jog and dog trot are both about the same speed and will build good base stamina for both owner and dog and will not build to much muscle but rather strengthen and tone. I find one long run of around 10 miles with a few shorter ones ie two 6 milers gives days off for more gentle obedience training days and ball work/ speedier stuff. You need to build up gradually which is why I always recomend the owner running as then they are unlikely to over do it at first which can happen if you use a bike. Of course if you have any health problems then see your GP first but running 20 miles aweek with proper shoes etc may well pay dividends for the owner in later life and the dog next winter.

 

Good on you Sandy. I did a marathon with the old bitch I have last year and I did another with her 18 month old son a week or so ago. They get a 6km run every morning before work and two half marathons every weekend. Just running the son now though as the old bitch is confined to barracks until her broken shoulder and leg mends. The stamina of the young dog is very good considering the amount of greyhound in him.

 

thats good milage! i recon at my age the one long run will do me lol. You can't change the physical percentage of fast and slow muscle fibres but you can certainly optimise those they have and build a dgree of stamina on dogs born to sprint.

[codder85 0]

personally i start with the diet of the dog, to get the most out of the dog it has to be right. a dog gets stamina by breaking down the food you are feeding in to glycogen, which when the dog is running is slowly used to give a slow release of energy producing more stamina. the food i feed contins a high amount of animal fat, which produces two and a half more times energy per gram, than protein or carbohydrates. for the exercise i do 3m per day on bike at a steady speed seems to work fine for me. alb

[JPTfellterrier 65]

personally i start with the diet of the dog, to get the most out of the dog it has to be right. a dog gets stamina by breaking down the food you are feeding in to glycogen, which when the dog is running is slowly used to give a slow release of energy producing more stamina. the food i feed contins a high amount of animal fat, which produces two and a half more times energy per gram, than protein or carbohydrates. for the exercise i do 3m per day on bike at a steady speed seems to work fine for me. alb

so do you feed your dogs on a dry, raw or anouther type of diet? i currently feed her on a mixed diet of raw whole rabbit, a complete lurcher dry food and raw knuckle bones as a weekly treat to keep there teeth nice

[codder85 0]

personally i start with the diet of the dog, to get the most out of the dog it has to be right. a dog gets stamina by breaking down the food you are feeding in to glycogen, which when the dog is running is slowly used to give a slow release of energy producing more stamina. the food i feed contins a high amount of animal fat, which produces two and a half more times energy per gram, than protein or carbohydrates. for the exercise i do 3m per day on bike at a steady speed seems to work fine for me. alb

so do you feed your dogs on a dry, raw or anouther type of diet? i currently feed her on a mixed diet of raw whole rabbit, a complete lurcher dry food and raw knuckle bones as a weekly treat to keep there teeth nice

 

i feed mine with what is known as 'meat greaves', which is basically, dried beef that has lumps of fat mixed in, you have to pour boiling water on it and leave for about an hour, then it is just like lumps of beef and fat which is soft. i then mix this with 2 slices of wholemeal bread (carbohydrates) and a small tin of processed peas in morrowfat, as the dog needs vegetable matter. if running the dog quite hard i mix in plummed tomatoes aswell which helps stop the lactic building up in the muscle.